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This song deals with being a teen and going through the typical drinking and experimenting with drugs phase; not listening to the advise of parents and literally driving them crazy. You become a parent and have a teenager who winds up doing the same thing to you that you did to your parents, only this time you're better capable of dealing with the situation and passing on sound advise. Its' message is: When you grow up and you're on your own, there will be temptations and pits you'll fall into, but you've got to rise above them and continue on with life the best way you can...learn from the mistakes of others; only then will you be "grown and gone."
lyrics
Grown and Gone
Me and my old man didn’t see eye to eye on a few things.
Hell-bent and wild, drinking, staying high when I turned seventeen.
Caught his back-hand up side my foolish head,
“Best leave that crap alone,” was all he said…
(then) I was grown and gone, on my own, could’ve choked a fertile field with all the weeds I’d sown.
Was a cold, hard world I was living in, and I admit I sank a bit every now and then,
but I pulled myself up and crawled my way out
of every hole I dug and just moved on,
yeah, I was grown and gone.
Years fly by, the blink of an eye finds me waiting,
in the kitchen in the dark; car pulls in the drive, and he stumbles in.
It all comes rushing back to me, the circle is completed, I’m my old man giving me the talk I needed…
When you’re grown and gone, on your own, I pray you don't reap half of the weeds I've sown,
'cause it’s a cold, hard world that we’re living in, and you’re bound to sink a bit every now and then,
you’ve got to pull yourself up and crawl your way out
of every hole you dig and just move on.
“Son, sooner than I want you to, you’ll be grown and gone!”
We both stood there crying, and he came and hugged my neck, he said, “I love you Dad, and I’ll remember what you said…”
When you’re grown and gone, on your own, if you’re lucky someone’s praying you don’t reap the weeds they’ve sown.
It’s a cold, hard world that we’re living in, and we’re bound to sink a bit every now and then,
we’ve got to pull our way up and crawl our way out
of every hole we dig and just move on.
Yeah, pull our way up and crawl our way out
of every hole we dig and just move on,
Yeah, when we’re grown and gone.
Yeah, when we’re grown and gone.
Copyright: Bill King/Hattie Mae Music (ASCAP)
2009
150 W Thompson Lane, D101
Murfreesboro, TN 37129
E-mail: w.king150@comcast
credits
released October 10, 2009
Writer (lyrics and music), Bill King, Hattie Mae Music (ASCAP).
Performer (singer/musician), Bill King
Singer, producer: Bill King, Hattie Mae Music (ASCAP).
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